DESPITE THE EFFORTS of late freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, racism continues to be an issue in South Africa.
However, his grand daughter and social activist Ndileka Mandela said she believed that economic equality could lead to a decrease in discrimination.
While giving a lecture at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) yesterday, the founder of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation said racism in South Africa existed both covertly and overtly. However, it was the covert type that was the most problematic.
“You still get pockets of racism to this day, and we heard a scenario where people are still called kaffir [an offensive ethnic slur]. I was called a kaffir not too long ago in a theatre in one of the centres,” she said. (TG)
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